# Yee Hop v. Young Sak Cho

> Hawaii Supreme Court · May 26, 1920 · 25 Haw. 494

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6485602

## Case

- **Full name:** C. Q. YEE HOP v. YOUNG SAK CHO
- **Court:** Hawaii Supreme Court
- **Decided:** May 26, 1920
- **Citations:** 25 Haw. 494; 1920 Haw. LEXIS 37
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Edings
- **Judges:** Coke, Edings, Kemp
- **Cited by:** 16 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6485602

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a mere payment of money is insufficient to except an oral land transaction from the statute of frauds but that “payment accompanied by an entry into possession under the contract is such a part performance as will support the bill”
- holding under Hawaii law that "petitioners being in open possession the law imposes upon respondents the duty to make reasonable inquiry as to the rights of the persons in possession"
- holding that "petitioners being in open possession the law imposes upon respondents the duty to make reasonable inquiry as to the rights of the persons in possession"

## Opinion text

DISSENTING OPINION OP
EDINGS, J.
I am unable to concur in tbe foregoing opinion and therefore respectfully dissent.

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